Jagr
03-30-01, 06:02 AM
Ok, have been happily OC'ing a 550E to 800 on a P3V4X and its time to move on to a bigger system and a more mature Mobo.
What I'm thinking is get an Abit KT7A Mobo (To RAID or not to RAID..that is the question) And an AMD 1.33G 266 CPU and throw it in a new 350W case with my existing Mushkin PC133 (Infineon running no problems 142) with a Leadtek GeForce II GTS, an HP CD R/W, an ISA Ethernet Card, and a 6Gig HDD and importantly I have a Creative Xgamer Live PCI Sound Card
I literally have ZERO experience with AMD chips but the cost/performance just can't be beat..especially by Intels current crop of P4's
My mains questions are..
AMD 1.33 266's.. are they multiplier locked?
Whats the normal multiplier? 9?
Whats the overclocking potential for Air Cooled with RAM that I know is solid at 142?
Whats a solid HSF that is not going to be a mounting problem on the KT7A series?
Any problems with the GF2 and compatibility?
Any AGP problems with the KT7A?
Whats a good box to put this in (will OC but nothing more than Air cooling can tolerate)
KT7A Should I go with RAID? Is it a stable board? (early P3V4X victim here :))
I want a stable solid system with no nagging conflicts and a mature BIOS/Driver set.. I've suffered through too many VIA/ASUS P3V4X problems and I don't want to repeat that again..ever...
Any advice, info, suggestions etc. would be greatly appreciated from those who have expereince with this setup..
Thanks in advance..
Email replies preferred if possible
Jagr
What I'm thinking is get an Abit KT7A Mobo (To RAID or not to RAID..that is the question) And an AMD 1.33G 266 CPU and throw it in a new 350W case with my existing Mushkin PC133 (Infineon running no problems 142) with a Leadtek GeForce II GTS, an HP CD R/W, an ISA Ethernet Card, and a 6Gig HDD and importantly I have a Creative Xgamer Live PCI Sound Card
I literally have ZERO experience with AMD chips but the cost/performance just can't be beat..especially by Intels current crop of P4's
My mains questions are..
AMD 1.33 266's.. are they multiplier locked?
Whats the normal multiplier? 9?
Whats the overclocking potential for Air Cooled with RAM that I know is solid at 142?
Whats a solid HSF that is not going to be a mounting problem on the KT7A series?
Any problems with the GF2 and compatibility?
Any AGP problems with the KT7A?
Whats a good box to put this in (will OC but nothing more than Air cooling can tolerate)
KT7A Should I go with RAID? Is it a stable board? (early P3V4X victim here :))
I want a stable solid system with no nagging conflicts and a mature BIOS/Driver set.. I've suffered through too many VIA/ASUS P3V4X problems and I don't want to repeat that again..ever...
Any advice, info, suggestions etc. would be greatly appreciated from those who have expereince with this setup..
Thanks in advance..
Email replies preferred if possible
Jagr